When I wrote an earlier piece about how tired I was of the parents’ guilt is being inflicted on the rest of us in the daily media barrage of claim and counter-claim I thought I was something of a lone voice. Not a lone voice in how I felt but a lone voice in expressing dislike at the McCann’s guilt being paraded on daily television and in the newspapers as if I was supposed to feel sorry for them in some way. It seems I’m not alone – Booker prize winner Anne Enright wrote a 2,000 word essay entitled, “Disliking the McCanns”, apparently ‘attacked’ by the McCann family as ‘publicity seeking’.
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Let’s recount what’s undisputed in the public domain – the McCann’s, Kate and Jerry, decided to leave their three very young children alone in an unfamiliar and unlocked apartment in a strange town in a foreign country while they went out for a meal and wine.

The Booker prize winner says, “”I disliked the McCanns earlier than most people (I’m not proud of it). I thought I was angry with them for leaving their children alone.”

This reminded me of a somewhat heated debate I had with my wife quite early on in the sorry saga. She had said she felt sorry for the parents. I replied I had no sympathy for them whatsoever. She called me a heartless monster. I pointed out that even now with two largely grown up children in a small, fairly quiet, uneventful town in Scotland I would never, ever contemplate leaving my children asleep in an unlocked house let alone a strange town in a foreign country. Turned out I was not alone in my views as she discovered when talking to her colleagues at work.

Last night’s rather disappointing Channel 4 documentary, “Searching For Madeleine”, where a number of British experts were commissioned to offer their opinions on what they believed may have happened, inevitably failed to deliver anything of substance although it did offer some interesting observations about how, in the absence of real information, the media were inclined to simply make things up to fill the vacuum.

If you happen to be one of the few people on the planet who don’t know what happened, Madeline McCann vanished from an apartment in Portugal. That’s as much can be said with any certainty from an observer such as myself; that the little girl disappeared. Ever since then, we have had a daily barrage of media coverage shoved down our throats. Initially, this seemed appropriate as it is often through massive media attention that many child abduction cases are quickly solved and the children rescued.
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I have been determined not to write a single word about this cause célèbre as it has been written about ad nauseum from the outset, mostly, in my opinion, because of the all-expenses-paid journalist junkets to the Algarve. Aside from that my personal disdain for the parents who left three toddlers alone in a holiday apartment in a strange town in a foreign country while they went out for a meal, is something I preferred to keep to myself. So what has gotten so far under my skin that I’ve chosen to air my opinions? The latest reports that Madeleine McCann detectives are to ask for British tourists’ DNA.

Picture the scene. You and your family had a lovely holiday in Praia da Luz in the Algarve in Portugal. While you were there, Madeline McCann went missing. A dreadful thing that makes you clutch your own children even tighter to your chest and carefully watch their every move even more closely than before (unlike the McCann’s). Some months later the police come to your home and ask you provide a sample of DNA and also your fingerprints because you are British and happened to be at the same complex.

Nothing to hide?

Of course, there will be people reading this who are foolish enough to believe that if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. Unfortunately, even if you are innocent you could be misidentified. It has happened before – both in fingerprinting and with DNA.

Not only do you have that to fear but you also have the prospect of your DNA making it’s way into the apartment. How? Contamination of the crime scene, as more than two dozen people entered the Algarve apartment where she was taken before police arrived – including the parents, their friends, other tourists and staff at the Mark Warner complex.

Let’s say for a moment you are one of those people who irresponsibly discards chewing gum by spitting it out onto the pavement for others to step in and it was carried into the apartment on the shoe of one of those twenty-four people. Your DNA would have been trailed throughout the apartment. It would appear from DNA evidence that you had actually been there even though you hadn’t.

Not only that but simply because you happened to be unfortunate enough to choose the same holiday destination as the McCann’s you would be compelled to provide your fingerprints and DNA. You could refuse of course, but that would make you a suspect, which puts you between a rock and a hard place.

As much as I would like the little girl to be found, the likelihood of this happening is, in my opinion, zero. I don’t know whether she was abducted by a stranger, killed by her parents or wandered off on her own having somehow escaped the apartment where she was neglected by her parents, and fell into the ocean. What I do know is that I have had enough of the ‘McCann case’. The police are looking for a body, not a missing child, and they know it. Everyone knows it. The only people who refuse to accept it are the McCann’s, driven on by their public guilt at leaving three toddlers alone in a holiday apartment while they went out.

In a shocking display of injustice, a paedophile who admitted 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on 13 different victims, including an 18-month-old toddler, walked free from court today.

Jehovah’s Witness, Michael Porter, of Okehampton Close, north London, was sentenced by Judge Tom Crowther at Bristol Crown Court to three years of community rehabilitation.

But Porter’s own sister, Tina Hughes, said: “I am absolutely disgusted. He should not have walked free. “He has lost nothing. We have to tell the victims we have got no closure. He is an evil person. He is not human.”

This is not justice – it is a travesty. The judge should be sacked as he is clearly unfit for the position he holds! This case shoud be appealed and the monster should get a life sentence, which is nothing less than he deserves!

A mother and her boyfriend have been jailed for murdering her four-year-old daughter in West Yorkshire.

Sharon Wright, 23, and 22-year-old Peter McKenzie-Seaton were both given life terms for killing Leticia Wright and each will serve at least 23 years.

Leticia had 100 separate injuries when she died and the judge at Bradford Crown Court said she had suffered “deliberate and grotesque cruelty”.

She was found dying in her Almondbury Bank home in November last year.

When police searched the girl’s home after her murder they discovered the little girl never had a single toy and her bedroom window had been blocked by a matress to prevent her waving to neighbours – her only source of comfort and stimulation in her short, bleak, painful life.

These pathetic monsters should be wiped from the face of the planet – prison is too good. Although I do applaud the sentence I see no reason why these miserable, pathetic animals should ever be afforded even the slightest hope of being realeased. Since the death penalty is unfortunately not an option, a deep, dark pit in some forgotten prison cellar should be where these scum serve out the entirety of their sentences!

A Judge spared a man who raped a girl of ten in a park — because she wore a ‘provocative’ frilly bra and thong.

Attorney General Lord Goldsmith is considering appealing against a sentence given to a window cleaner for raping the 10-year-old girl.

Keith Fenn, 24, was given concurrent two-year and 18-month jail sentences at Oxford Crown Court by Judge Julian Hall for two attacks on the girl in a park, however, because of time served while on remand he will be released in just 4 months time.

The girl was attacked by Fenn and an accomplice in a park in Henley-on-Thames on 14 October last year.

Oxford Crown Court heard that Fenn removed her clothes and raped her, while an accomplice, Darren Wright, 34, took her home and sexually assaulted her.

Wright is already free as Judge Hall had already given him a nine-month sentence for inciting the girl to perform a sex act.

The charity Kidscape accused Judge Julian Hall of “trying to find excuses” and said a child must never be blamed. Kidscape branded the sentence dished out as a ‘disgrace’ and called for him to be axed from the bench.

An Edinburgh mother has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for her part in the gang rape of her young daughter and her younger sister.

Caroline Dunsmore was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh for overseeing 10 years of abuse of Dana Fowley, now 27, and her sister. She was part of a paedophile ring thought to include at least 10 people, three of whom have since died, including another woman. Three men, aged between 40 and 65 are currently under investigation.

Also jailed were two of the men who repeatedly raped the two sisters over a 10 year period, the offences only coming to light when the younger sister raised a complaint. The offences took place in the Pilton area of Edinburgh over several years and began when the girls were under the age of 10.

Morris Petch (left) had sentence was deferred after previously absconding while on bail while John O’Flaherty was sentenced to 13 years for his role.

Why these sick fucktards have not been locked away for life is a mystery to me! They should never, ever, walk the streets again. Hopefully ‘prison justice’ will see to it that their sentences are what they deserve.

Yippee! A woman who defrauded 19 people by selling fake holidays on eBay is facing jail after a judge warned her she faces prison.

Julie Flood was told she should make arrangements for the care of her 12-year-old daughter before her next court appearance for sentencing. Go Judge!
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Julie Flood, eBay scammer

These people are some of the lowest forms of life and should be sent to jail. Usually they vanish having left a trail of disappointed and out of pocket customers, however, in the case of Julie Flood, she was apprehended after complaints from customers she had scammed via her eBay shop between November 2004 and March 2005.

Prosecutor Philip St John-Stevens said: “She was running a site on eBay selling holidays… these holidays were never to materialise.”

Flood, 45, from Sussex Road, Maidstone, Kent, admitted 27 counts of theft and will be sentenced on August 1st.

From the US – When a young couple had failed to return by the following morning, their parents notified police. Christopher Newsom’s body was found near some railroad tracks in East Knoxville that afternoon, but Channon Christian remained missing. A trace run on Channon’s cell phone helped authorities locate her abandoned vehicle the next day, and fingerprints raised from an envelope inside the automobile led police to the residence of 25-year-old Lemaricus Devall ‘Slim’ Davidson, where they discovered Channon’s body wrapped in a blanket.

Carjackers had taken Channon’s vehicle at gunpoint, bound and blindfolded the couple, and transported them to Davidson’s residence. At that location, Christopher was raped prison style (in front of Channon) by multiple assailants, his penis was cut off, he was shot multiple times, his body was set on fire, and, finally, his corpse was taken away and dumped alongside railroad tracks.

With Christopher out of the way, the perpetrators next focused their depravity on Channon. Over the ensuing two days, they beat her, gang-raped her, urinated upon her, cut off one of her breasts (while she was still alive), and poured bleach down her throat. As with Christopher, they finished up by shooting her multiple times and setting her body on fire, but instead of dumping her corpse elsewhere, they wrapped it in a blanket and stuffed it into a trash can which was left inside the residence.

According to reports, they were subjected to lengthy torture in each other’s presence, injected with chemical disinfectants to destroy DNA evidence, then strangled and shot.

According to Snopes, the so-called, Urban Legend reference site, this story did not make national media headlines because it didn’t have the correct combination of factors to warrant such media attention.

The reason the story made it onto Snopes is because of an email circulating on the Internet complaining that the reason the story is being ignored is because it was a white couple who were murdered, claiming that if the couple had been black and the perpetrators white, it would be American national frontpage news for weeks.

Mark M. Alexander, who spent six years in law enforcement, has written a brilliant piece entitled, “Murder in black and white” citing the abject inhumanity of the crimes and asking if the reason the crimes received so little attention was because the murdered couple were white and the five defendants black?

He goes on to point out that in the US “Although blacks represent just 12 percent of the U.S. population, black perpetrators are convicted by their peers in more than half of all murder and manslaughter cases. And, per-capita black-on-white crime is far more prevalent than the inverse.” and to deride the “double standards when it comes to the media’s coverage of interracial crime.”

There’s a touching and very moving video that’s been posted on Youtube simply titled, For Channon Christian.

The evil murdering scum who tortured then snuffed out Channon and Christopher’s lives should be burned at the stake, conscious. No mercy should be afforded them.

I was reading today about how “the father of dismembered British girl Lucie Blackman has criticised Japanese prosecutors after the millionaire property developer suspected of the killing was today acquitted.”

Em, sorry, but isn’t that why he accepted 100 million yen (£467,000)? So that the accused would not be convicted of the crime? It’s called “condolence money” – a Japanese funerary custom where people give “comfort money” as part of the funeral service at the wake. Which of course begs the question, “Why was it given and why was it accepted” if the accused had nothing to do with the crime?

To my way of thinking it’s simply hush money or more accurately, blood money, paid to make the problem go away. Lucie Blackman’s mother, Jane Steare, certainly calls it blood money, accusing Tim Blackman, the father, of colluding with the defence.

Which brings me back to my original point – what’s Tim Blackman whinging about? He got his money.

The self-pitying ramblings of the demented University shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, have been aired on almost every news network across the English-speaking world. Sent to NBC News as Cho readied himself for the second phase of his killing spree, the package contained an 1,800-word manifesto-like statement in which Cho expresses rage, resentment and a desire to get even. He talks at length of his hatred of the wealthy.

“You had 100 billion chances to have avoided today but you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option.
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The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.

I didn’t have to do this. I could’ve left. I could’ve fled.

You just loved crucifying me. You loved inducing cancer in my head, terrorising my heart and ripping my soul all this time.

For some, perhaps many, there will be a stirring of empathy for what they see as a mirror in their own lives where they see the affluent and untroubled lifestyles of their peers contrasting starkly with lives of struggle and emotional upheaval. Like Cho, they may be bullied and ridiculed by fellow high school students.

Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and ABC news consultant, sums it up: “I promise you the disaffected will watch him the way they watched ‘Natural Born Killers.’ I know. I examine these people,” he said. “I’ve examined mass shooters who have told me they’ve watched it 20 times.”

The most chilling part of Cho’s message indicates he hoped to elicit copycats and was deliberately trying to persuade those who also felt disaffected into following in his bloody footprints;

“You thought it was one pathetic void life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people.”

There was a time when a murderer would end his or her days at the end of a rope. This was a common law dating back centuries based on the principle that if you took a life you gave your own in recompense.

There were flaws of course – sometimes the innocent went to the gallows in place of the guilty.
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What was missing when the death penalty was abolished was the technological advances of today – the forensic evidence and the conclusiveness of DNA.

Now we have judges whinging about how prisons will be filled with ‘geriatric lifers‘. Those are the the relatively few who actually remain in jail.

Tariffs
People who commit a murder in the UK today have what’s called a ‘minimum tariff‘, the minimum time they must remain incarcerated before being considered for parole. The defacto standard for murder is just ten years but some have walked free after just 15 months. Rarely is it raised except in the most extreme of cases.

Average time served for murder
Nowadays a person who commits a murder in the UK can expect to be free on average, in just six years. A significant proportion go on to commit further crimes and murders.

The phrase often bandied about is the criminal must be removed from society ‘in order to protect the public.’ Pardon me, but what happened to justice? Payment exacted to pay for the crime itself, not to protect the public from further outrages?

If the death penalty were reintroduced the public would automatically be protected. Not only that but these monsters would be wiped from the face of the earth which is nothing less than they deserve. To some that may be considered retribution. I see nothing wrong with terrible retribution for terrible crimes. To me that is payment exacted.

Consider this case – an extremely rare one where a ‘full life tariff’ has been applied – a father of a seven week old baby tortured and sexually assaulted the baby for the entire duration of her painfully short life, before finally murdering her, something he fantasized about. Why does this monster deserve to take another breath? He should be executed.

How about this infamous case? A man is undeniably convicted of murdering two little girls, Holly and Jessica, yet does not qualify for a ‘whole life term’ instead receiving a forty year tariff. He should be executed.

Or this case where a group of men kidnapped a 15-year-old boy, Kriss Donald, tortured him, stabbed him thirteen times before setting him on fire while he drew his final breaths – as if his final hours weren’t horrific enough. Their actions were deliberate, thought-out and barbaric. They should be executed.

I firmly believe these and the many cases like them deserve the ultimate punishment – death.

I grow ever more weary of hearing about the ‘rights of the accused’ – the murdered no longer have any rights – they weep from the grave while their relatives weep for them.

At no time did the murderer ever consider their right to live and so should it be when we impose justice.